ePN Changing Affiliate Links

ePN just notified everyone (you should have received an e-mail from them today) that as of March 31st, the rover link format is changing.  I updated the Auction Request rover links to this new format just now; please advise immediately (in reality, tomorrow morning / Saturday morning when your ePN earning stats will reflect the new link structure) if your rover links do not appear to be working correctly.  I think they'll be fine, but who really knows at this point.

The old link structure looked like this: 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.de%2Fitm%2F184659519294&campid=0123456789&toolid=10001

The new link structure looks like this: 

https://www.ebay.de/itm/184659519294?mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&mkcid=1&campid=0123456789&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

Note that for eBay domains outside the US, the new links will correctly go to that eBay domain (www.ebay.de, for instance) where the old rover links were always rover.ebay.com.

Why did ePN do this?  I do not believe it has anything to do with Auction Request specifically, as this would have had to have been in the planning stages for some time.  Publicly they're saying it's to bring the rover links up to "industry standards", which is software-speak for "the real reason is something else but everybody likes to hear about industry standards".  In this case, the new structure avoids a redirect on eBay's side, which was probably the main reason for the change.  The second reason for the change was to purposely break all third-party tools and scripts, many of which are old / will not be updated, so they'll get to pay out less affiliate commissions.  Just my wild guesses here of course.  :/

Lastly, the new (hidden) front page for all subscribed users is here: https://www.auctionrequest.com/welcome-to-auction-request-2/

Scott